“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
a strong government like a Leviathan to render a state of peace out of the chaos. Now, the governments have become so extractive, untrustworthy, and dangerous to their citizens that a good case can be made that people will prefer the state of nature over the Leviathan.
in the history of political philosophy, Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan ranks pretty high up there among Enlightenment era founding treatises. He claimed that because life in the state of nature was "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short", the people would prefer...
There’s always a connection.
Director of National Intelligence, Avril Haines, was once an employee of WestExec Advisor; a consulting firm for high tech startups seeking contracts with the Pentagon.
And who founded WestExec?
Current Secretary of State Antony Blinken… 🤨
no one even knew who Avril Haines (Biden's DNI). was -- but Tulsi Gabbard is getting many multiples more attention, as the gatekeeper of the President's information. not to mention, see below. it all STINKS to high heaven.
How did the CIA and Bill Gates know about ‘Covid’ beforehand?
“Bill Gates was hosting a coronavirus pandemic simulation in New York City. His co-host is Avril Haines, the Deputy Director of the CIA. What is the CIA doing at a public health forum…?”
How did the CIA and Bill Gates know about ‘Covid’ beforehand?
“Bill Gates was hosting a coronavirus pandemic simulation in New York City. His co-host is Avril Haines, the Deputy Director of the CIA. What is the CIA doing at a public health forum…?”
A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or, perhaps, both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance:
@mtracey and it kinda makes sense in a way because we do that shit anyway but not openly. plus it's funny and maintains attention on him without getting flat out weird. that's not exactly an easy magic trick to pull off and he's been doing it for years and years
@mtracey consider the abandonment of the middle and working class, the desire to not think of it that way, and to be entertained, and that his base was secretly rigging elections in his favor by deceiving pollsters while at the same time knowing they're being used, but in a better way
@BrandonWarmke one problem could be that all of the thought is Western thought. what's a conservative in East Asia?
secondly, and connected, what's being conserved? or rather, what's being preserved?
@BrandonWarmke the basic answer is you can't really fix it. the confusion and insanity are actually natural sources that are a result of hubris and lack of humility
@lhfang that is literally the case in many areas of the economy, by design, for centuries, and efforts to break it require a critical mass which is always itself broken by some betrayal
@a_newsman@ggreenwald@johnnydollar if it wasn't for the Democrats pushing bat shit crazy policies like woke and open borders (they got greedy) they'd be unstoppable. but they wanted acceptance of unacceptable actions and behaviors.
@a_newsman@ggreenwald@johnnydollar it's worth it to ask why, when the Democrats used to be all over the place and Republicans during the war on terror years early 2000s were speaking in lock step: because of safety. also because Democrats reached critical mass demographically.